Have you ever heard or seen something that initially seemed to be totally fine, until you saw just how truly dangerous it actually is?
What is a much bigger threat than initially presented?
Cows
Bougainvillea
Household ladders
Vending machines
Cat.
Yes, hello, I am here having my third ER visit.
This was my hand on Saturday, one day after cat bite, and after two doses of antibiotics.
In case you are like me, and have no sense of medical emergency, that is a serious infection.
I have had two butt shots, an X-ray, five days out of ten of courses of two different antibiotics, and I just had a CT scan.
Did you never attempt to wash it out after getting bitten? Any time you puncture skin you should wash it.
I washed it thoroughly, cleaned it with hydrogen peroxide, applied Neosporin, bandaged it, then went to urgent care, where they prescribed me Augmentin. And even after all that, that’s how my hand looked the next day!
The ease of gambling in the US.
Alcohol
iirc it’s a confirmed, 100% proven carcinogen and is a poison with zero net benefits.
I mean nobody drinks it because it’s healthy.
But but but muh 1 glass of red wine a day study!
Social media abuse
A threat I once greatly underestimated.
Little addictions.
Addiction is a real problem and incredibly hard to diagnose. I’m not talking about drugs, I’m talking about those little additions that subtly sublimely control nearly every decision in your life. Addiction to caffeine, sugar, social media, TV, driving too fast, being an asshole, being a complainer, etc.
There’s a lot of reasons why we do what we do or why we think we do them but for the most part it’s about chasing those bits of dopamine.
I think im “addicted” to all of these things.
Although im not a complainer.
Also try not to be an asshole but im sure someone thinks i am.
you know when you see one of those dashcam videos where some idiot has run over a sign or a bollard or whatever and just kept driving with the thing stuck to the car, throwing sparks everywhere and making a big rip in the asphalt behind them?
100 horsepower is a lot.
